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On 7 January 2020, the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) discussed COVID-19 prevention and control. [30] On 8 January 2020, a new coronavirus ( SARS-CoV-2 ) was announced by Chinese scientists as the cause of the new disease; [ 13 ] and on 10 January a nearly identical virus to the 28 December upload was ...
Li-Meng Yan or Yan Limeng (simplified Chinese: 闫丽梦; traditional Chinese: 閆麗夢) is a Chinese virologist, [3] known for her publications and interviews alleging that SARS-CoV-2 was made in a Chinese government laboratory.
The blame for the failure to report cases of COVID-19 at the onset is unclear because of the difficulty pinpointing it as a failure by either local or national officials. [5] The Associated Press reported that, "increasing political repression has made officials more hesitant to report cases without a clear green light from the top."
This is the 11th in the South China Morning Post's series of explainers about China's Communist Party in the lead-up to the party's centenary in July. Here, William Zheng identifies some of the ...
Following the rapid scaling down of stringent zero-COVID restrictions, Beijing reported a surge in COVID-19 infections. [224] [225] The Chinese central government's reported death statistics only include cases in which COVID-19 directly caused respiratory failure, which led to skepticism by health experts of the government's total death count.
The COVID-19 pandemic in China is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). China was the first country to experience an outbreak of the disease, the first to impose drastic measures in response (including lockdowns and face mask mandates), and ...
A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in mainland China in November 2022. [6] [4] [7] [8] [9] Colloquially referred to as the White Paper Protests (Chinese: 白纸抗议; pinyin: Bái zhǐ kàngyì) or the A4 Revolution (Chinese: 白纸革命; pinyin: Bái zhǐ gémìng), [10] [11] the demonstrations started in response to measures taken by the Chinese government to prevent the ...
In a country where the Communist Party is synonymous with the state, it may surprise some that there are eight minor political parties. China's constitution, which defines the Communist Party as ...